Calling bands by part of their name

[ElizabethofYork]

Mondays, Roses, Floyd, Lace,.etc.

So annoying. Even worse, when preceeded by The.

 

[Hotel Chocolate]

Lace?

 

[cesare]

Lace?

Just a guess

 

[danski]

Just a guess

I was thinking more agadoo!

 

[andysays]

Just a guess

Glad to see I'm not the only one who remembers "The Lace"

 

[two sheds]

Indeed - always refer to it as Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, NOT Bonzos and CERTAINLY NOT The Bonzo Dog Doo-Day Band.

 

[cesare]

I was thinking more agadoo!

They didn't even occur to me

 

[Hotel Chocolate]

I too was thinking more Black Lace.

Surely, you missed the most famous shortened "The" band is The Stones.

 

[gentlegreen]

The pink Floyd a well-known beat combo

 

[Griff]

Guilty of:

The Pistols
The Stones
Beefheart

Sorry!

 

[Elpenor]

Sometimes I just call them “The”

 

[Mattym]

One's I've been guilty of recently...
Fontaines
Sleafords or The Mods
'Pusher

 

[Griff]

Dylan.

 

[danny la rouge]

The Fannies (Teenage Fanclub).

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

I have real trouble with The The.

 

[mx wcfc]

Sham
Upstarts

Does Punilux count?

 

[dessiato]

Who

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

When Mumford and Son were a thing I was boarding a British Airways flight where their acoustic twee noise was accompanying our boarding. The pilot came on the intercom to deliver a message “sorry to interrupt the Mumfords, I have a message”

If I didn’t hate them already, I would have then.

 

[Silas Loom]

All names should be abbreviated. No person or band or thing should ever be allowed more than two syllables. Killing an extraneous word is a good way to keep to the limit.

On a related note, do music journalists still use band names as surnames for members? I always liked that.

 

[mx wcfc]

On a related note, do music journalists still use band names as surnames for members? I always liked that.

I don't think it's just journalists. Jessi Eastfield calls himself Jessi Eastfield.

 

[Yossarian]

All names should be abbreviated. No person or band or thing should ever be allowed more than two syllables. Killing an extraneous word is a good way to keep to the limit.

Yep, I think the inevitability of abbreviation is something bands should take into account when they are considering giving themselves names like the Manic Street Preachers or the New Fast Automatic Daffodils

 

[Pickman's model]

Dylan.

There is only one Dylan

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Seemed quite popular in the late 80s/early 90s when bands had long and daft names

Neds
Poppies
Carter
New Fads
etc

 

[hitmouse]

Indeed - always refer to it as Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, NOT Bonzos and CERTAINLY NOT The Bonzo Dog Doo-Day Band.

Don't get me fucking started on people who just say "Silver Mt. Zion" instead of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band with Choir! Where do people stand on initialisms, is it permissible to just say DRI and MDC instead of Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Millions of Dead Cops?

 

[hitmouse]

I think we should all take a leaf out of Yeezy and Weezy's books, so the Happy Mondays could become known as Heezy, Stone Roses as Steezy, etc.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

O.M...

Run DM..

etc

 

[Pickman's model]

All names should be abbreviated. No person or band or thing should ever be allowed more than two syllables. Killing an extraneous word is a good way to keep to the limit.

On a related note, do music journalists still use band names as surnames for members? I always liked that.

You'll have to change your username

 

[A380]

Just a guess

Don’t be a hero!

 

[cesare]

Don’t be a hero!

Don't be a fool with your life!

 

[Steel Icarus]

Always done it. It's natural to shorten things.

The Weddoes
Kitchens
Dexys

British Sea Power did it themselves, as did Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Silver Beatles, Southern Death Cult, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young